1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
7 * Support portable version of Windows build
8 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
9 and rewrite the parsing of those files
10 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
13 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
14 * New SMB access module using libdsm
15 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
16 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
17 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
18 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
19 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
20 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
21 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
22 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
23 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
24 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
25 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
26 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
27 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
28 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
29 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
32 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
33 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
34 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
35 * Support for Daala video
36 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
37 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
38 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
39 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
40 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
41 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
42 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
43 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
44 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
45 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
46 * Basic TTML subtitles support
47 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
48 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
49 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
50 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
51 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
55 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
56 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
57 * Support Daala in Ogg
58 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
59 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
60 * Support SBV subtitles
61 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
62 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
63 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
64 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
65 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
66 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
67 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
68 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
69 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
70 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
71 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
72 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
73 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, using the same core
77 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
78 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
79 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
82 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
83 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
86 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
87 * Wayland shell surface window provider
88 * Wayland shared memory video output
89 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
90 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
91 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
92 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
93 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
94 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
97 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
100 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
101 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
102 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
105 * Chromecast output module
106 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
109 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
112 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
113 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
117 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
118 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
121 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
122 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
123 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
124 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
125 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
128 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
131 * Batch convert support
134 * Support key accelerators
137 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
138 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
139 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
140 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
141 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
142 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
143 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
144 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
145 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
146 identifier (if there is one available)
147 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
148 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
149 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
150 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
151 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
154 * Support for the SystemD Journal
155 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
156 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
157 * New Android module for logging
160 * remove langfromtelx
161 * remove ZPL playlist format
162 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
163 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
167 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
168 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
169 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
172 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
173 --------------------------------
176 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
177 * Fix some VP9 decoding
179 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
180 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
181 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
182 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
187 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
188 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
189 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
190 * Revert to older ASX code
191 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
194 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
195 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
196 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
199 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
200 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
201 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
204 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
205 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
206 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
209 * Fix recent items behaviour
210 * Fix rotation filter activation
211 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
214 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
215 * Fix extensions registration during install
216 * Fix extensions dialog crash
217 * Default to no DxVA decoding
220 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
223 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
224 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
225 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
226 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
227 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
228 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
231 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
232 --------------------------------
235 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
236 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
239 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
240 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
241 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
242 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
245 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
246 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
247 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
248 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
250 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
251 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
252 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
255 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
256 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
257 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
258 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
259 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
260 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
261 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
262 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
263 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
264 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
265 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
266 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
267 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
268 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
269 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
270 * New jpeg image decoder
271 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
272 * New SVG image decoder
273 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
274 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
275 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
278 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
279 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
280 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
281 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
282 * New png image encoder using libpng
285 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
286 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
287 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
288 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
289 synchronization and tracks exclusion
290 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
291 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
292 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
293 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
294 * Support Opus in MKV
296 * Basic support for WebVTT
297 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
298 * Support HDPR TS files
299 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
300 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
301 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
302 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
303 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
304 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
305 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
306 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
307 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
308 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
309 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
310 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
313 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
314 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
315 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
316 * New Android native window provider module
317 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
318 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
319 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
322 * New Oldmovie effect filter
323 * New VHS effect filter
324 * New Freeze effect filter
325 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
326 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
327 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
330 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
331 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
332 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
333 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
334 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
335 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
338 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
339 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
341 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
344 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
345 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
346 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
347 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
348 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
349 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
350 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
351 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
352 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
354 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
355 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
356 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
359 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
360 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
363 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
364 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
367 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
368 * Add record button in Qt menus
369 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
370 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
371 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
374 * Support for OS X Yosemite
375 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
376 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
377 * Fixes for advanced preferences
378 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
379 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
380 * Option to increase playlist font size
381 * Improved crash log reporting
384 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
385 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
386 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
387 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
390 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
393 * iOS video output: use ios2
394 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
395 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
398 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
399 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
400 * Update of all translations:
401 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
402 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
403 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
404 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
405 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
406 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
407 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
410 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
411 --------------------------------
417 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
418 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
419 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
420 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
421 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
422 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
423 * Fix potential crash in zip access
424 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
425 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
428 * Update translations and greek encoding
431 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
432 --------------------------------
435 * Fix compilation on OS/2
438 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
440 Mac OS X audio output:
441 * Fix channel ordering
442 * Increase the buffersize
445 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
446 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
447 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
450 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
453 * Correctly support video-on-top
454 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
455 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
458 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
461 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
462 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
465 * Update British English
468 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
469 --------------------------------
472 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
475 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
478 * Fix DVD playback regression
479 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
480 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
483 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
484 --------------------------------
487 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
488 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
491 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
492 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
493 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
496 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
497 by updating codec libraries
498 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
499 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
500 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
503 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
504 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
505 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
506 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
509 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
510 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
513 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
514 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
515 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
516 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
517 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
520 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
521 * Fix record file names
524 * Fix minimal size possible on start
525 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
526 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
527 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
528 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
531 * Fix album art display on Windows
534 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
535 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
536 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
537 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
538 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
539 and Simplified Chinese translations
540 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
543 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
544 --------------------------------
547 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
548 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
549 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
550 audio devices on OS X
551 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
552 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
555 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
556 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
559 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
560 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
563 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
566 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
567 * Improve A-B loop control
568 * Fix album art update when changing media
571 * Add a language option in the interface
572 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
573 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
574 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
575 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
576 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
577 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
578 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
581 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
584 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
585 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
586 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
587 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
590 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
591 --------------------------------
594 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
596 * Fix some subtitles track selection
599 * VP9 support in WebM
600 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
601 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
604 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
605 * Support Speex in ogg files
606 * Fix some .mov playlists support
607 * Support Alac in mkv
608 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
609 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
612 * Fix DVB options parsing
613 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
614 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
617 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
618 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
621 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
622 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
625 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
626 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
627 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
628 * Fix play after drag'n drop
629 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
632 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
633 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
636 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
637 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
640 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
641 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
642 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
643 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
644 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
645 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
646 * Improves interface resizings
649 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
650 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
651 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
652 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
653 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
657 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
658 --------------------------------
661 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
662 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
663 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
664 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
665 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
667 3rd party libraries (contrib):
668 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
671 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
672 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
673 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
674 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
675 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
678 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
679 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
683 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
684 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
685 * Support for Ulead DV audio
686 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
687 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
688 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
689 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
690 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
691 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
692 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
693 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
694 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
695 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
698 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
699 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
700 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
703 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
704 remove support for previous OS X releases
705 * Major improvements in DASH support
706 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
707 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
708 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
709 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
710 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
711 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
712 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
713 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
714 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
715 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
716 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
719 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
720 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
721 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
722 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
723 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
724 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
725 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
726 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
727 * Support for more MJPEG streams
728 * Add support for liveleak streams
729 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
730 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
731 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
734 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
735 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
736 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
737 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
738 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
739 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
740 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
741 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
742 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
743 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
744 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
747 * New remapping channel filter
748 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
749 * New VSXu visualization plugin
750 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
751 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
752 * New gain audio filter
755 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
756 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
757 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
758 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
759 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
760 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
761 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
762 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
763 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
766 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
767 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
768 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
769 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
770 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
771 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
772 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
775 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
776 * Options support for AVIO output module
777 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
778 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
779 * Livehttp stream encryption support
780 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
781 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
784 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
787 * configurable password for the HTTP server
788 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
789 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
790 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
791 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
792 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
793 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
794 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
798 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
801 * Add support for multiple video outputs
802 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
804 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
805 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
806 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
807 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
808 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
809 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
810 VLC's internal volume level
811 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
813 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
814 selection and to manage the list of presets
815 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
816 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
817 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
818 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
819 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
820 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
821 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
822 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
823 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
824 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
826 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
827 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
828 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
829 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
830 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
831 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
832 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
833 3rd party applications
834 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
835 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
836 (system-wide settings)
837 * Add support for the Video Title option
838 * Add support for the Boss Key
839 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
840 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
843 * Partial support for Qt5.0
844 * Menus modifications and improvements
845 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
846 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
847 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
848 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
849 * EPG display fixes and improvements
850 * Add SD pixmap sources
851 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
852 * Display playlist total duration
853 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
854 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
855 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
860 * Extend sliders, offsets options
861 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
862 * Numerous fixes and improvements
863 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
866 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
867 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
868 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
869 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
870 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
871 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
872 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
873 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
874 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
875 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
878 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
879 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
880 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
881 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
882 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
883 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
885 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
886 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
887 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
888 * Broken crop video filter
890 * OSD parser and menu
891 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
892 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
893 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
894 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
898 * Update of all translations
901 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
902 --------------------------------
905 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
906 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
909 * Fix modplug security issues
912 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
913 --------------------------------
917 * Fix crash in QTsound
918 * Fix screen mouse file location
919 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
922 * Fix use after free in sgimb
923 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
926 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
929 * Fix interface crashes
930 * Fix autostart playback option
931 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
934 * update Welsh translation
935 * New Kannada translation
938 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
939 --------------------------------
942 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
943 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
947 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
950 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
953 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
956 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
960 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
963 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
966 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
967 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
968 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
971 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
972 --------------------------------
975 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
978 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
981 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
982 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
983 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
984 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
985 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
986 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
989 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
990 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
991 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
992 * 3rd party codecs updates
995 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
996 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
997 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
998 in the advanced preferences panel
999 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1000 * Fix crash within the video output code
1001 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1002 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1003 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1004 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1005 lua extensions, ...)
1006 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1009 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1012 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1013 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1016 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1019 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1020 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1021 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1022 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1023 Dutch, Danish, translations
1024 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1027 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1028 --------------------------------
1031 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1034 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1035 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1036 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1039 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1040 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1041 * Fix koreus lua parser
1042 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1043 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1044 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1045 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1048 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1049 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1052 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1055 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1056 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1057 * Fix Time counter UI look
1058 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1061 * Fix https streaming
1064 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1065 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1066 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1069 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1070 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1071 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1072 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1073 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1076 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1077 --------------------------------
1080 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1081 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1082 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1083 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1084 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1085 during playback on Mac OS X
1088 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1089 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1090 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1093 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1094 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1095 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1096 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1097 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1100 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1101 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1102 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1103 * Support Youtube live streams
1106 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1109 * Fix media info dialog update
1110 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1111 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1112 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1113 * Fix album art display at start
1116 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1117 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1118 * Fix menus display and behavior
1119 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1120 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1121 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1122 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1123 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1124 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1125 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1128 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1129 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1130 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1131 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1132 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1133 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1134 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1135 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1136 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1139 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1140 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1141 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1142 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1143 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1146 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1147 --------------------------------
1150 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1153 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1154 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1157 * Add GateKeeper support
1158 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1159 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1160 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1163 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1166 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1167 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1168 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1169 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1170 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1173 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1174 --------------------------------
1177 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1178 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1179 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1180 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1181 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1182 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1183 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1184 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1185 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1186 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1187 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1191 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1192 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1193 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1194 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1195 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1196 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1197 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1198 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1199 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1200 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1201 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1202 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1205 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1206 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1208 * Fix MP3 free format support
1211 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1212 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1213 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1214 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1215 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1218 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1219 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1221 Audio filters and output:
1222 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1223 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1224 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1225 * Do not apply volume in file output
1226 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1227 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1230 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1231 the persistant media library
1232 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1233 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1234 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1235 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1236 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1237 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1238 press on the Play/Pause button
1239 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1240 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1241 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1242 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1243 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1244 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1245 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1246 Synchronization panel
1247 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1248 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1249 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1250 * Fix crashes on exit
1251 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1253 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1254 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1255 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1256 automatically reset on the first launch.
1257 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1258 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1259 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1262 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1263 * Fixes for icecast SD
1266 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1267 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1268 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1269 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1270 * Fix tags and file names display
1271 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1274 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1275 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1278 * Fix display of some buttons
1279 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1280 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1283 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1284 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1285 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1288 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1289 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1290 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1291 Thai translations update
1292 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1295 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1296 --------------------------------
1299 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1300 * fix the samba module compilation
1301 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1302 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1303 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1304 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1307 * Support for MXPEG files
1308 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1309 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1312 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1313 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1314 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1317 * Fix ogm header creation
1320 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1321 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1324 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1325 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1326 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1327 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1330 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1333 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1334 * allow to hide the sidebar
1335 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1336 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1337 * noticebly faster launch time
1338 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1339 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1340 * improve track synchronization panel
1341 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1342 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1345 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1346 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1347 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1348 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1351 * fix for menus display
1352 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1353 * documentation update
1356 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1357 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1360 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1361 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1362 * Update Jamendo selections
1366 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1367 * fix a crash on VLM close
1370 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1371 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1372 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1373 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1376 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1379 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1380 ---------------------------------
1383 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1384 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1385 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1386 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1387 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1388 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1389 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1390 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1391 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1392 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1393 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1394 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1395 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1396 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1397 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1398 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1399 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1400 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1401 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1402 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1403 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1404 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1405 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1406 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1407 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1408 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1410 Important changes for packagers:
1411 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1412 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1413 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1414 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1415 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1416 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1417 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1418 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1419 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1420 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1423 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1424 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1425 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1426 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1427 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1428 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1429 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1432 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1433 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1434 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1435 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1436 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1437 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1438 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1439 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1440 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1441 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1442 * PulseAudio audio input support
1443 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1444 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1445 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1446 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1447 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1448 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1449 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1450 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1453 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1454 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1455 are notably concerned.
1456 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1457 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1458 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1459 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1460 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1461 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1462 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1463 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1464 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1465 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1466 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1467 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1468 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1469 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1470 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1473 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1474 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1475 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1476 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1477 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1478 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1479 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1480 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1481 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1482 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1483 * Improved support of tracker files
1484 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1487 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1488 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1489 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1490 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1491 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1492 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1493 and important cleanups and optimisations
1494 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1495 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1496 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1497 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1498 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1499 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1500 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1501 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1502 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1503 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1504 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1505 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1506 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1507 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1508 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1509 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1510 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1511 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1512 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1513 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1514 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1517 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1518 * New video output for iOS platform
1519 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1520 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1521 * Various vmem improvements
1522 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1523 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1524 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1525 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1526 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1527 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1529 Audio Output and Filters:
1530 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1531 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1532 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1533 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1534 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1535 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1536 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1537 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1538 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1539 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1542 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1543 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1544 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1545 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1546 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1547 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1548 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1549 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1550 * New anti-flickering filter
1551 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1552 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1553 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1554 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1555 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1556 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1557 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1560 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1561 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1562 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1563 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1564 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1565 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1566 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1567 * Major rework of VoD support
1568 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1569 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1570 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1571 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1572 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1573 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1574 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1575 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1576 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1577 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1580 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1581 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1584 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1585 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1586 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1587 list of available audio and video filters
1588 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1589 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1590 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1593 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1594 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1595 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1596 * id3tag: use taglib
1597 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1598 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1599 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1600 * removal of the noise filter
1601 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1602 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1603 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1604 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1607 * Update of translations for most languages.
1608 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1611 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1612 ----------------------------------
1615 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1616 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1619 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1620 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1623 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1624 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1625 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1628 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1631 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1632 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1635 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1638 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1639 ----------------------------------
1642 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1643 including support for OS X Lion
1644 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1645 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1648 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1651 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1652 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1653 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1656 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1659 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1660 ----------------------------------
1663 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1664 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1667 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1668 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1669 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1670 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1671 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1673 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1674 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1675 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1677 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1678 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1681 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1684 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1687 * Fix quitting on Linux
1688 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1692 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1695 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1698 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1699 ---------------------------------
1701 Windows and Mac OS X:
1702 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1705 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1706 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1709 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1712 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1715 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1717 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1718 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1720 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1721 * RTP output and XML export
1722 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1726 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1727 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1728 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1729 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1732 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1733 --------------------------------
1735 Windows and Mac OS X:
1736 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1739 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1742 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1743 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1744 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1745 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1746 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1747 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1750 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1751 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1755 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1756 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1757 * New Luganda Translation
1760 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1761 --------------------------------
1764 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1767 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1768 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1769 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1770 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1773 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1775 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1776 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1777 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1778 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1779 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1780 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1781 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1782 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1784 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1785 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1786 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1787 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1788 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1789 * Configure and build system improvements
1790 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1793 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1794 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1795 * New icelandic translation
1798 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1799 --------------------------------
1802 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1803 #234484 and #260719.
1806 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1807 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1808 and stability reasons
1811 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1815 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1818 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1819 ----------------------------------
1822 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1825 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1826 ---------------------------------
1829 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1830 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1831 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1832 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1835 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1838 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1839 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1840 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1841 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1844 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1845 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1846 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1848 Subtitles and renderer:
1849 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1850 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1851 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1852 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1853 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1856 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1857 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1858 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1859 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1862 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1863 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1865 Miscellaneous fixes:
1866 * KDE device solid actions
1868 * Transcode integer overflow
1869 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1870 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1873 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1874 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1875 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1878 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1879 ----------------------------------
1882 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1886 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1889 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1892 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1893 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1894 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1895 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1898 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1902 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1905 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1908 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1909 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1911 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1915 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1916 * Miscellaneous fixes
1919 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1920 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1921 French and Ukrainian
1922 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1923 * New Asturian translation
1926 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1927 ----------------------------------
1930 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1932 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1935 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1938 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1939 * Various fixes for Windows
1942 * New Armenian translation
1943 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1944 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1947 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1948 --------------------------------
1951 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1952 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1953 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1956 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1957 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1960 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1961 --------------------------------
1963 Access and demuxers:
1964 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1965 * fix for podcasts parsing
1966 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1969 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1970 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1973 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1974 * fix m3u playlists exports
1977 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1980 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1983 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1986 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1989 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1992 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1993 --------------------------------
1996 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1997 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2000 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2001 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2004 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2005 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2006 * fix console output encoding
2008 Interface and extensions:
2009 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2010 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2013 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2014 --------------------------------
2017 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2018 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2019 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2020 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2021 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2022 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2023 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2024 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2025 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2026 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2027 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2028 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2029 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2030 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2031 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2032 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2036 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2037 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2038 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2039 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2040 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2043 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2046 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2047 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2048 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2052 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2055 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2056 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2057 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2060 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2061 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2062 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2063 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2066 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2067 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2070 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2071 --------------------------------
2073 Important changes for users:
2074 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2075 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2077 Important changes for packagers:
2078 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2079 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2080 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2081 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2082 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2084 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2086 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2087 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2088 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2089 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2090 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2093 * Support for the sftp protocol
2094 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2095 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2096 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2097 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2098 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2101 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2102 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2103 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2105 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2106 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2107 * Invmem module improvements
2108 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2109 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2110 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2111 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2112 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2113 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2114 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2115 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2116 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2117 * Support for VP8 codec
2118 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2121 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2122 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2123 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2124 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2125 * Various EGP improvements
2126 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2127 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2130 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2131 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2132 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2133 * Podcast images are now displayed
2136 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2137 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2138 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2139 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2140 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2141 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2142 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2143 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2144 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2145 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2146 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2149 * New content extensions lua framework
2152 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2153 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2154 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2155 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2156 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2157 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2158 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2161 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2162 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2163 * Service discovery based on libudev
2164 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2167 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2168 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2169 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2170 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2171 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2172 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2173 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2176 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2177 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2178 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2181 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2183 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2184 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2187 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2190 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2191 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2192 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2193 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2194 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2195 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2196 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2199 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2200 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2203 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2204 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2205 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2209 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2210 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2211 * Improved Solaris port
2214 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2215 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2218 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2219 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2220 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2221 * transrate: broken since too long
2222 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2223 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2224 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2225 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2226 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2227 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2228 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2229 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2230 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2231 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2232 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2233 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2234 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2235 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2238 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2239 --------------------------------
2242 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2244 Decoders/Packetizers:
2245 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2248 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2249 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2250 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2251 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2252 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2255 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2256 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2259 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2260 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2263 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2264 and Walloon translations updated
2265 * Sinhala translation started
2268 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2269 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2272 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2273 --------------------------------
2276 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2277 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2280 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2283 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2284 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2287 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2288 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2289 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2290 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2293 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2294 --------------------------------
2297 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2298 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2301 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2302 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2305 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2306 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2309 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2312 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2313 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2316 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2317 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2320 * New Walloon translation
2321 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2324 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2325 --------------------------------
2328 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2329 regressions in most popular drivers
2330 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2333 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2334 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2335 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2338 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2339 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2342 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2343 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2344 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2345 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2346 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2349 * New udev module for linux
2352 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2355 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2358 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2359 --------------------------------
2362 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2363 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2364 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2367 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2368 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2371 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2372 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2375 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2378 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2379 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2380 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2381 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2384 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2385 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2386 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2387 - no support for Goom and SDL
2388 - limited text rendering support
2389 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2392 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2393 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2394 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2395 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2396 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2397 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2398 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2399 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2400 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2404 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2407 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2410 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2411 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2412 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2413 Arabic and French translation updates
2416 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2417 --------------------------------
2420 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2421 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2422 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2423 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2424 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2425 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2428 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2429 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2430 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2433 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2434 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2435 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2438 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2441 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2442 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2445 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2446 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2447 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2448 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2449 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2450 * Fix various crashes
2453 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2455 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2459 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2460 ---------------------------------
2464 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2465 See 'Access:' for more info.
2466 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2469 * Instantaneous pausing
2470 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2471 * Finer speed control
2472 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2473 * Timeshift for most medias
2474 * RTSP trickplay support
2475 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2478 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2479 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2480 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2481 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2482 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2483 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2484 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2485 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2486 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2487 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2490 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2491 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2492 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2493 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2494 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2495 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2496 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2499 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2500 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2503 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2504 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2505 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2506 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2507 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2508 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2509 * DVB scanning on linux
2510 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2511 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2512 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2513 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2514 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2515 * MTP device access on Unix
2516 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2517 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2520 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2521 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2522 Windows and Mac OS X.
2525 * Export the playlist in HTML
2526 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2527 * Better metadata handling and reading
2529 Linux/Windows interface:
2530 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2531 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2532 * Recently played items list
2533 * Interface toolbar customizations
2534 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2535 - More menus actions
2536 - Finer speed slider
2537 - Improvements on many dialogs
2538 - New dialog for plugins listing
2539 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2540 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2541 * Better integration in GTK environments
2544 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2545 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2546 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2547 * Additional usability improvements
2550 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2551 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2552 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2553 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2554 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2557 * New Maemo port with:
2558 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2559 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2562 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2565 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2566 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2567 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2568 * Support for latest iSight models
2571 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2572 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2575 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2576 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2577 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2578 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2579 The old image video output has been removed.
2580 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2581 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2584 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2592 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2593 --------------------------------------
2599 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2600 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2601 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2602 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2603 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2604 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2605 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2607 Various fixes to the following modules:
2610 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2611 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2612 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2614 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2619 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2620 ---------------------------------
2623 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2624 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2627 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2628 ---------------------------------
2631 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2634 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2637 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2638 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2639 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2640 main controller window.
2641 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2644 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2649 * Updates of other localizations
2652 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2653 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2654 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2655 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2656 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2659 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2660 ---------------------------------
2663 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2665 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2668 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2669 --------------------------------
2674 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2675 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2678 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2679 --------------------------------
2681 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2682 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2685 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2688 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2689 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2692 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2693 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2696 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2697 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2698 * Various fixed in playlist
2701 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2704 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2707 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2708 ------------------------------------
2710 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2711 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2714 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2715 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2716 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2719 * Stability fix for the video output.
2722 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2723 --------------------------------
2726 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2727 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2728 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2729 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2730 * Fixed update system bugs
2731 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2734 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2735 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2736 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2737 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2738 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2739 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2740 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2741 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2742 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2743 modern Mac OS X versions
2746 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2747 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2749 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2750 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2753 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2754 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2755 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2756 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2757 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2758 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2761 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2762 --------------------------------
2764 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2765 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2766 * Multiple bugfixes.
2769 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2770 --------------------------------
2772 * Multiple bug fixes.
2775 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2776 ---------------------------------
2780 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2781 recent to work correctly
2782 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2783 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2784 edit the ".hosts" file.
2785 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2786 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2787 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2788 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2789 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2790 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2791 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2792 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2793 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2794 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2795 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2796 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2797 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2798 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2799 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2800 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2801 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2802 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2803 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2804 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2805 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2806 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2807 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2808 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2809 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2810 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2811 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2812 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2813 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2814 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2815 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2816 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2817 and postproc modules.
2818 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2819 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2820 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2821 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2823 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2824 filter. For example:
2825 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2826 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2828 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2829 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2835 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2837 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2838 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2841 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2842 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2844 * Shoutcast TV listings
2845 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2847 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2848 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2850 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2853 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2854 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2855 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2856 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2857 * JACK audio input support
2858 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2859 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2860 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2861 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2862 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2863 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2864 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2865 (available as a separate download).
2866 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2867 * RTMP input support
2868 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2869 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2870 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2872 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2873 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2876 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2877 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2878 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2879 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2881 * APEv1/2 tags support
2882 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2883 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2885 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2886 * TiVo Series 2 support
2887 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2892 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2893 * Flash Screen Video support
2894 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2895 * DosBox Capture support
2896 * Karl Morton's Video support
2897 * limited atrac3 support
2899 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2900 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2901 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2902 * H.264 PAFF support
2903 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2904 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2905 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2906 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2907 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2910 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2911 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2912 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2913 * AQTitle subtitles support
2914 * MKV USF subtitles support
2915 * HTML-based subtitles support
2916 * MPSub subtitles support
2917 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2918 * MPL2 subtitles support
2919 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2920 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2921 * Realtext subtitle support
2922 * DKS subtitle support
2923 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2924 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2927 * Flash Screen Video support
2928 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2930 Video outputs and filters:
2931 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2932 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2933 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2934 * New puzzle video output filter
2935 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2936 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2938 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2939 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2940 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2941 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2942 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2943 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2944 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2945 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2946 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2947 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2948 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2949 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2950 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2951 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2953 Audio outputs and filters:
2954 * Replay gain support
2955 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2956 new scaletempo audio filter)
2957 * New spatializer audio filter
2958 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2961 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2962 * New RTP payload formats:
2963 * Speex voice audio codec
2964 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2965 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2966 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2967 * DCCP transport for RTP
2968 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2973 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2974 end-user suitable way.
2975 * Improved user interaction
2976 * Improved mouse gestures
2977 * Vastly improved Update checker
2978 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2980 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2981 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2983 * Improved video output features
2984 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2985 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2986 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2987 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2988 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2990 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2991 if libncursesw is available.
2992 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2993 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2994 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2996 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2997 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2998 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2999 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3000 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3001 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3002 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3003 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3006 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3007 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3008 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3011 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3012 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3013 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3014 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3015 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3016 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3019 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3020 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3030 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3031 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3032 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3035 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3036 ----------------------------------
3039 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3042 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3043 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3044 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3045 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3046 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3047 * Updated Polish translation
3050 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3051 ----------------------------------
3054 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3055 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3056 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3059 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3060 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3061 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3062 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3063 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3064 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3065 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3066 to an unexpected application termination
3067 * New Serbian translation
3068 * Updated Romanian translation
3071 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3072 ----------------------------------
3075 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3076 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3077 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3078 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3079 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3080 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3081 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3082 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3085 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3086 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3087 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3088 * Fixed AAC resampling
3089 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3090 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3093 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3094 ----------------------------------
3097 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3098 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3099 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3100 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3101 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3104 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3105 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3106 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3107 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3108 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3111 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3112 ----------------------------------
3115 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3116 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3119 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3120 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3121 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3122 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3124 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3128 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3131 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3134 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3137 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3140 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3141 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3142 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3143 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3144 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3146 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3147 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3148 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3149 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3152 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3155 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3156 ----------------------------------
3159 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3160 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3161 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3163 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3164 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3166 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3167 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3170 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3172 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3173 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3174 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3175 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3176 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3177 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3178 two different movies
3179 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3180 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3181 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3184 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3187 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3188 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3189 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3190 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3193 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3194 ----------------------------------
3196 Various bugfixes, notably:
3197 * Windows Vista compatibility
3198 * Cropping in Direct3D
3199 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3200 * RSS filter string overflow
3202 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3204 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3205 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3208 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3209 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3212 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3215 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3218 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3221 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3222 ----------------------------------
3224 Various bugfixes, notably:
3225 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3226 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3227 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3228 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3229 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3230 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3233 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3234 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3237 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3239 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3240 * Diverse usability improvements
3241 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3242 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3243 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3246 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3247 ---------------------------------
3249 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3250 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3253 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3256 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3257 --------------------------------
3260 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3263 * Support for RTSP authentication
3264 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3265 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3266 * ATSC support for DVB input
3267 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3268 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3269 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3272 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3273 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3274 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3275 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3276 * Matroska WavPack support
3277 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3278 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3279 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3282 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3283 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3284 * Improved libcaca support
3288 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3289 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3291 * Systray support in skins
3293 * Support for Apple Remote control
3294 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3295 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3296 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3297 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3299 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3302 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3303 Windows 9x/ME users:
3304 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3305 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3306 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3307 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3308 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3310 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3311 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3320 * Updates to the libvlc API
3321 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3324 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3325 --------------------------------
3328 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3329 * Support for downloading updates
3333 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3334 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3335 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3336 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3338 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3339 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3340 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3343 * Cook (Real audio) support
3345 Playlist / Services discovery:
3346 * XSPF playlist support
3348 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3351 * New JACK audio output
3354 * New video filters:
3355 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3356 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3357 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3358 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3359 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3360 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3363 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3366 * System to inform the user and request information
3367 - HTTP authentication
3371 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3372 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3373 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3376 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3377 - Improved playlist handling
3378 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3380 - Embedded Video output
3381 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3382 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3383 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3384 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3385 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3387 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3388 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3391 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3394 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3395 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3396 * Growl "Now playing" support
3399 * Ability to log to syslog
3400 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3403 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3405 * A bit more automatic testing
3408 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3409 ---------------------------------
3412 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3413 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3416 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3417 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3420 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3423 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3424 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3430 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3433 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3434 --------------------------------
3437 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3441 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3442 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3443 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3446 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3447 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3448 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3449 * GnomeVFS input module
3450 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3451 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3454 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3455 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3456 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3459 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3460 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3466 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3467 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3470 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3471 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3472 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3475 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3477 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3478 - New extended controls panel
3479 - New bookmarks window
3480 - Fixed playlist sorting
3481 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3483 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3484 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3485 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3486 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3490 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3491 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3493 - Include macro to include other files
3497 * Should now work outside IE as well
3500 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3503 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3504 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3507 The following languages were added:
3511 * Simplified Chinese
3512 The following languages were re-added:
3516 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3517 --------------------------------
3520 * Rewrite of the playlist
3522 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3523 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3524 * Preferences improvements:
3525 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3526 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3528 * Core image manipulation support
3529 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3530 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3531 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3532 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3533 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3534 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3535 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3536 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3537 * Access filter architecture
3538 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3539 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3543 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3544 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3545 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3546 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3547 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3548 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3549 * Massive Matroska improvements
3550 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3552 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3553 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3554 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3555 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3556 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3558 Decoders / Encoders:
3559 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3560 * PNG decoder/encoder
3561 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3562 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3565 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3568 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3569 * Brand new SAP module
3570 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3571 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3572 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3573 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3574 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3575 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3579 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3582 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3583 * Image file video output (png)
3584 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3585 * Improvements to wall video filter
3586 * Support for font color and opacity
3592 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3593 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3594 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3598 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3599 - Improved preferences
3600 - Improvements to the wizard
3601 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3603 - Redesigned playlist
3604 - Improved preferences
3606 - Support for multiple actions
3609 - Support for the new playlist system
3611 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3614 * Screensaver disabling fix
3615 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3616 * Support for no-decoration windows
3619 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3620 * The OpenGL video output is back
3621 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3622 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3623 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3624 is not yet available in the new module
3625 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3628 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3637 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3640 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3643 The following languages were added:
3649 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3650 --------------------------------
3653 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3654 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3657 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3658 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3659 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3662 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3665 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3668 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3671 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3672 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3673 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3677 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3679 * Support of playlist group announcement
3682 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3683 --------------------------------
3686 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3687 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3688 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3689 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3690 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3691 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3694 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3695 (Stream your desktop)
3696 * Improved DVD support:
3697 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3698 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3699 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3700 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3701 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3702 (selection of titles/chapters).
3705 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3706 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3707 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3708 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3709 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3710 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3711 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3712 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3713 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3714 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3717 * G.726 audio support
3718 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3719 * MPEG-4 text support
3720 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3721 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3722 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3726 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3727 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3728 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3729 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3730 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3731 * DVB subtitles encoder
3732 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3733 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3735 * Text track muxing for mp4
3736 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3737 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3738 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3739 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3740 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3741 * Improved ASF muxer
3743 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3744 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3745 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3748 * New audio equalizer filter
3749 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3750 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3751 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3752 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3755 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3756 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3757 with support for effects.
3758 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3759 - New filters can be streamed.
3760 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3761 - Centralized scaling and blending
3763 - "time", to display current time
3764 - "marq", to display a marquee
3767 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3768 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3769 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3770 * A few skins2 improvements
3771 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3772 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3773 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3774 * Improved CORBA control module
3777 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3778 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3779 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3782 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3783 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3784 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3787 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3788 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3789 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3790 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3791 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3794 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3797 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3798 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3801 * Server/client network synchronization module
3802 * VBrick streams fully supported
3803 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3807 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3808 --------------------------------
3811 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3812 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3813 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3814 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3817 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3818 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3819 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3820 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3821 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3822 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3823 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3826 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3827 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3828 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3829 * Improved directory access module.
3830 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3831 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3832 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3833 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3834 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3837 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3838 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3839 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3842 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3843 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3844 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3847 * Improved session announcement system.
3848 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3849 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3850 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3851 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3852 * Improved transrater.
3853 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3854 * New configuration system.
3855 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3858 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3859 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3860 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3861 * Supports scheduling.
3862 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3863 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3866 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3867 - Ability to embed video output.
3868 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3869 - Lots of improvements.
3870 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3871 - New design and set of icons.
3872 - Ability to embed video output.
3873 - Support for hotkeys.
3874 - Support for bookmarks.
3876 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3877 - Better hotkeys handling.
3880 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3881 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3882 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3883 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3886 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3887 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3888 * Improved Windows installer.
3894 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3895 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3898 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3899 ---------------------------------
3902 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3903 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3906 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3907 --------------------------------
3910 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3911 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3914 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3915 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3916 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3917 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3920 * Internal improvments
3921 * Improved import/export
3924 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3926 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3927 small and strange formats.
3929 * New MOD audio demux.
3930 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3931 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3932 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3933 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3936 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3937 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3938 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3944 * New opengl video output plugin.
3947 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3948 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3951 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3952 --------------------------------
3955 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3956 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3957 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3958 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3959 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3960 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3961 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3962 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3965 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3970 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3971 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3972 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3973 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3974 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3975 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3976 * Better Icecast support.
3977 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3978 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3981 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3982 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3983 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3984 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3985 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3986 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3987 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3990 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3991 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3992 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3993 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3994 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3995 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3996 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3997 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3998 * Preliminary RTP support.
3999 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4004 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4005 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4007 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4008 - Improvements and help in preferences
4009 - New streaming wizard
4010 - Revised Disc Open menu
4012 - Improvements of the standard pages
4013 - Support for new commands
4014 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4017 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4018 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4021 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4022 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4023 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4024 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4025 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4026 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4027 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4028 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4029 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4032 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4034 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4035 * Support for Panther.
4036 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4037 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4040 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4041 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4042 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4043 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4044 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4045 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4046 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4047 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4050 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4051 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4052 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4055 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4058 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4059 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4060 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4061 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4064 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4065 --------------------------------
4068 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4071 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4072 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4075 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4076 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4079 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4082 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4083 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4086 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4089 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4092 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4093 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4097 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4098 --------------------------------
4101 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4102 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4106 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4107 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4108 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4110 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4111 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4114 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4117 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4120 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4121 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4125 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4126 --------------------------------
4129 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4130 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4134 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4135 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4136 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4137 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4138 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4141 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4142 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4143 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4146 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4147 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4148 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4151 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4152 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4153 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4154 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4155 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4158 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4159 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4160 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4163 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4166 * Improved build system.
4167 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4168 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4169 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4170 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4173 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4174 --------------------------------
4177 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4180 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4181 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4182 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4183 * Video 4 Linux support
4184 * CD Digital Audio support
4185 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4188 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4189 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4190 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4191 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4194 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4195 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4196 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4197 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4198 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4199 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4200 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4203 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4204 * New HTTP remote control interface
4207 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4208 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4209 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4210 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4211 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4214 * New reset option for the preferences
4215 * You can set your language in the prefences
4216 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4217 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4218 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4219 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4222 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4223 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4224 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4227 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4228 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4229 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4230 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4231 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4232 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4233 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4234 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4235 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4236 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4239 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4240 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4241 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4242 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4243 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4244 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4245 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4248 * Interface localization
4249 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4250 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4251 * New full-featured Preferences window
4254 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4255 --------------------------------
4258 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4259 * support for skins at the interface level
4260 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4261 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4262 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4263 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4264 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4267 * fixed HTTP redirects
4268 * support for opening an entire directory
4269 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4270 * new video4linux access plug-in
4271 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4274 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4275 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4276 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4279 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4280 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4281 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4282 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4283 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4284 * new codec for raw I420 video
4285 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4288 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4289 (although it still misses some important features)
4290 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4293 * new HTTP output support
4294 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4295 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4298 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4301 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4304 * reorderable playlist
4305 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4306 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4307 * support for mono audio output devices
4308 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4309 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4310 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4311 * the messages window remembers more lines
4312 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4313 * http and ogg stream output options
4314 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4317 * new skinnable interface
4318 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4320 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4321 * support for FLAC audio format
4322 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4324 * network tab in the interface
4325 * "apply" handling in preferences
4328 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4329 ---------------------------------
4332 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4333 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4334 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4335 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4337 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4338 * DTS S/PDIF support
4341 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4342 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4343 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4344 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4347 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4348 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4351 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4354 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4357 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4359 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4360 * rc interface is now fully useable
4361 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4364 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4365 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4366 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4367 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4368 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4370 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4371 * support for mouse gestures
4372 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4375 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4376 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4379 * improved ID3 tag detection
4380 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4381 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4382 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4384 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4387 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4388 ---------------------------------
4391 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4392 English was set as the preferred language
4395 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4396 --------------------------------
4399 * new mouse gesture interface
4400 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4404 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4405 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4406 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4409 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4410 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4414 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4417 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4418 without the user consent
4421 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4423 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4424 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4425 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4428 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4429 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4430 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4431 * playlist enhancements
4432 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4433 * new step forward/step backward commands
4434 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4435 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4436 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4439 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4440 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4441 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4444 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4445 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4448 * native video output is working again
4449 * only commandline interface support
4450 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4453 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4454 --------------------------------
4457 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4458 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4459 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4460 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4461 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4462 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4463 and A/52 streams are supported)
4464 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4469 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4470 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4471 * VCD entry points support
4472 * VCD image file support
4475 * support for *.asf format
4476 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4477 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4478 * support for ogg encapsulation
4479 * support for raw DV format
4480 * support for *.wav format
4481 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4484 Stream discovery & playlists:
4485 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4486 * support for .m3u file format
4487 * support for .asx file format
4488 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4491 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4492 (only available with the .avi demux)
4493 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4494 * support for raw PCM data
4495 * support for Cinepak video codec
4496 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4497 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4498 * support for Xvid codec
4499 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4500 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4501 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4503 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4505 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4508 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4511 * new WxWindows interface
4512 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4513 device and the channels configuration
4514 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4515 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4516 format that VLC can play
4517 * new swedish translation
4518 * enhancements of the playlist window
4519 * new messages window to see debug info
4520 * fixed a few crashes
4523 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4524 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4525 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4526 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working